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by btown 2y ago
Just (carefully) power down the robot before the memory leaks exceed available RAM!
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by btown 2y ago
I say this as someone who's tried all the state-of-the-art voice generation systems: so far, nobody has trained an AI to "chew the scenery" nearly as effectively and effusively as these voice actors having the time of their
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by btown 2y ago
The real hidden gem here is the hilarious 40 minute mermaid-themed true crime podcast parody that you'll only hear a portion of if you progress quickly. As far as I can tell, it's fully custom-made for this game? Can't find a
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by btown 2y ago
I once worked on a student robotics project where if you didn't gracefully shut down the connection to a specialized camera, it had a significant chance of physically bricking the camera. We were using C++ and essentially instrumente
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by btown 2y ago
While the presence of an algorithm that "auto-scabs" makes a full-fledged strike fundamentally difficult, a threat of a coordinated campaign where large creators encourage users to install ad blockers and go off-site for donations
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by btown 2y ago
> 8 years ago Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus (via https:/&#x2F
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by btown 2y ago
One of the reasons that copyright processes are so biased towards traditional rightsholders and against individual creators is that the latter group is simultaneously captive to the platform and unorganized/decentralized; YouTube needs
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by btown 2y ago
> Hypothesis: the world's most valuable data is screen captures of outlier competent people going about their work. But very little of this data is recorded, let alone made publicly available. It's not quite screen captures, bu
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by btown 2y ago
What kind of file should be uploaded?
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by btown 2y ago
I do think there's something to be said for files being seen not as things that can be "owned" and "manipulated" and "locked" by a main process, but rather as their own independent services, in a unified r
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by btown 2y ago
I place a lot of the blame for the success of this phishing attack with how the Chrome Web Store, and Google more broadly, is operated. If you train your developers that you are willing to unilaterally and suddenly disable published extensi
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by btown 2y ago
It's a really useful extension if you work with GraphQL endpoints, and fully open-source: https://github.com/warrenday/graphql-network-inspector It's been fully patched since: https://github.com&
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by btown 2y ago
I was recently bit doing a Postgres upgrade by the Postgres team considering statements like `select 1 group by true` fine to silently break in Postgres 15. See https://postgrespro.com/list/thread-id/2661353 - and
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by btown 2y ago
> pseudo encrypted, where the encryption is done using software that is also controlled by the adversary I'd say there's a very real use for this, though, which is that with mobile applications it's more complicated to com
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by btown 2y ago
I really, really like this approach! Rather than trying to build a full graph of related low-level components from function calls etc., which is almost always overwhelming, this just finds the "vibes" of how modules are named in t
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by btown 2y ago
> I found out about the data stream from https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ , which has considerably more and more interesting stats than just how full the piss tank is. > I will not be adding any of them. This, r
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by btown 2y ago
Press release primary sources from the German watchdog, BayLDA: https://www.lda.bayern.de/media/pm/pm2024_08_en.pdf (EN) https://www.lda.bayern.de/media/pm/pm2024_08.pdf (DE) Quote from
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by btown 2y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... is a parallel saga for mimicking the macOS touchpad behavior on Linux; it's been a full 8 years in the making. It's so much more than acc
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by btown 2y ago
Yep - my understanding of https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/blob/main/docs/ha-cons... is that Kubernetes doesn't usually control that load balancer (nor should it, since you could accidenta
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by btown 2y ago
Law does have subroutines like this... but they're implicit via "as used in this section, X is defined as" clauses that may be pages away or defined decades prior, as well as de facto definitions scattered through centuries o
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by btown 2y ago
> In order to make that fix, we needed to access the Kubernetes control plane – which we could not do due to the increased load to the Kubernetes API servers. Something that I wish all databases and API servers would do, and that few ac
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by btown 2y ago
> Introduce rules so hard to comply with that only big tech will be able to comply When intentional, this is Regulatory Capture. Per https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulatory-capture.asp : > Regulation
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by btown 2y ago
Looks like you put the private models link in your Show HN post text as well - it's worth fixing. Are you planning to support any image or video generation models, or focusing on text for now?
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by btown 2y ago
> On the test’s 500-point scale, American adults scored 258 on average in literacy, 13 points lower than in 2017, and 249 in numeracy, 6 points lower. > One literacy question involves a passage describing how bread and crackers become
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by btown 2y ago
For PDFs it's entirely a wrapper around https://pdfminersix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/highle... - https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/main/src/ma
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by btown 2y ago
This is an active area of research: https://github.com/SpursGoZmy/Awesome-Tabular-LLMs is a good starting point!
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by btown 2y ago
EDIT: I may have spoken too soon on the below; I checked myself, and the journalist's test card numbers in the OP do not, in fact, pass the Luhn algorithm! So perhaps some grace is deserved. But I'm preserving my comment below, if
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by btown 2y ago
In theory Retool would be this, but it's clunky for the interface designer - namely, it assumes you might have different custom read and write paths, so it makes you jump through hoops in setting up a Cell Change Handler linked to a Qu
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by btown 2y ago
It's way more powerful than that, since every active user session can have its own shaped & subsetted subscription to live data. See https://electric-sql.com/demos/proxy-auth for an example of how you could bu
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by btown 2y ago
But the SAR itself, from how it sounds in the OP, is not the trigger that makes a person/business unbankable across the entire banking system - only at that single bank. The OP article makes a reasonable point that administration offic

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